A keynote presentation at the 2012 Computer Applications in Archaeology (CAA) conference in Southampton (UK) proposed the use of grand challenges as a vehicle for identifying and pursuing major advances in Digital Archaeology. At the same time, it was argued that this should be a collaborative venture. This was taken forward at a round table session at the 2014 CAA in Paris, and a number of pap...

This paper presents a noncooperative coalitional bargaining model with generalized selection of proposers, which includes Chatterjee et al.’s (1993) fixed-order-proposer model and Okada’s (1996) random-proposer model as two extreme special cases. In the model, at each round, proposers are selected according to recognition probabilities, which depend on who rejects a proposal at the previous rou...

I remember that the Cardiothoracic Unit of the UCH Ibadan ably led by Professor Grillo in his heyday presented their experience with open heart surgery at the Surgical Grand Round of our department in Paul Hendrickse Lecture Theatre in December 1978. Their story, quite rightly, was enthusiastically hailed as a truly momentous surgical milestone and the result of years of concentrated hard work ...

La ronde (« The Round »), an immersive audio-walk commissioned by the Société du Grand Paris in 2016, allows us to analyse contradiction between adherence and distancing, relation ambiguity of writer’s position facing citizen consultation territorial development. modality is constantly undermined ironic critical distancing effects. Paradoxically, it also a privileged way subtly contesting urban...

Intracranial foreign body granulomas are rarely reported. Clinical symptoms caused by foreign body granulomas can be noticed from months to many years after surgical procedure. The most common reported etiology is suture material. A 45-year-old woman was presented with grand mal epilepsy. She was operated for brain tumor 19 years ago. In CT scan, a round radio-dense mass resembling a tumor at a...

The Paediatric Assembly of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) maintained its high profile at the 2015 ERS International Congress in Amsterdam. There were symposia on preschool wheeze, respiratory sounds and cystic fibrosis; an educational skills workshop on paediatric respiratory resuscitation; a hot topic session on risk factors and early origins of respiratory diseases; a meet the expert ...

BACKGROUND Mercury is a persistent, biomagnifying contaminant that can cause negative effects on ecosystems. Marshes are often areas of relatively high mercury methylation and bioaccumulation. Nelson's Sparrows (Ammodramus nelsoni) use marsh habitats year-round and have been documented to exhibit tissue mercury concentrations that exceed negative effects thresholds. We sought to further charact...

Approximately 30% of Minnesotans use on-site systems (approximately 500,000 residences) and >50% are failing or non-compliant with regulations due to restrictive soils and site conditions. Many sites occur near lakes and streams creating health hazards and deteriorating water quality. SSF CWs have been evaluated year-round at two northern sites since 1995. The NERCC CWs simulate single homes an...